ALTO vs. ARQ, AMTX, VGAS, FSI, TSE, LODE, ORGN, CBUS, ZTEK, and LOOP
Should you be buying Alto Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Alto Ingredients include ARQ (ARQ), Aemetis (AMTX), Verde Clean Fuels (VGAS), Flexible Solutions International (FSI), Trinseo (TSE), Comstock (LODE), Origin Materials (ORGN), Cibus (CBUS), Zentek (ZTEK), and Loop Industries (LOOP). These companies are all part of the "chemicals" industry.
Alto Ingredients vs. Its Competitors
Alto Ingredients (NASDAQ:ALTO) and ARQ (NASDAQ:ARQ) are both small-cap chemicals companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings and media sentiment.
Alto Ingredients has a beta of 0.31, suggesting that its stock price is 69% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, ARQ has a beta of 1.9, suggesting that its stock price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Alto Ingredients and Alto Ingredients both had 1 articles in the media. ARQ's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat Alto Ingredients' score of 0.94 indicating that ARQ is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Alto Ingredients presently has a consensus price target of $5.50, suggesting a potential upside of 386.73%. ARQ has a consensus price target of $10.00, suggesting a potential upside of 36.99%. Given Alto Ingredients' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Alto Ingredients is more favorable than ARQ.
ARQ has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Alto Ingredients. ARQ is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alto Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
ARQ has a net margin of -1.40% compared to Alto Ingredients' net margin of -7.16%. ARQ's return on equity of -0.07% beat Alto Ingredients' return on equity.
42.4% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 18.5% of ARQ shares are held by institutional investors. 5.3% of Alto Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 23.9% of ARQ shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
ARQ beats Alto Ingredients on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (NASDAQ:ALTO) was last updated on 9/2/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
